CHARIS TAPLIN (UK)
Charis Taplin (1999) is a dance theatre maker and performer from the UK. She studied contemporary dance at Art Factory International, Bologna. She then received a degree in literature from the University of Cambridge, specialising in the relationship between poetry and performance score. During her studies she co-founded “Wringing Metamorphosis,” an interdisciplinary company with a focus on devising through “ancestral dreamscape,” often accompanied by live Arabic and Sephardic music. Here she choreographed and performed in venues throughout the UK, including an original work, “OMPHALOS,” at Theatre Peckham. In 2022 the company collaborated with and performed alongside poet Bhanu Kapil in an interpretation of the text Humanimal, as part of “Queer Earth and Liquid Matters,” in association with the Serpentine Gallery.
Since graduating she has studied extensively in Butoh, with teachers including Yumiko Yoshioka, Uiko Wantanabe and Yuko Kaseki. In 2023 she made her professional Butoh debut at the Amsterdam Butoh Festival with Ix-Butoh Ritual Dance and Theatre. She has since performed both solo and ensemble pieces with the company in Spain and Germany, and performs regularly in London with London Butoh Dance Company. She is currently a student of the New Butoh School in Ruvo, Italy, under the direction of dancer, choreographer and Tai Chi and Qigong master Sayoko Onishi.
She has also written and directed for the stage and collaborated in short films as a performer and dramaturg. She has performed and devised with interdisciplinary collaborators from visual and sonic arts, and has a strong interest in puppetry and object manipulation.
Having begun dancing at a young age in intergenerational and mixed-ability dance environments led by Cecilia Macfarlane, the principle of movement and performance as a non-hierarchical and communal space remains central to her practice and pedagogy. She has taught in community spaces in the UK, and led workshops with BA Drama students from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Projects with CPPM
CPPM TRIPTYCH: Night Watch (2026) · CPPM LÄBU: A Second Silence Even Denser (2025) · CPPM LÄBU: M&M (the Man and the Myth) (2025) · CPPM LÄBU: Waistland (2025) · Here We Are (2025) · CPPM EXPROMT 1.1 · 1.2 · 1.3 · 1.4 · 2.1 · 2.2 · (Double Bill) (2025)
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